> not r/programming or other communities from which to derive some enlightenment
Some obscure subreddits remain a source of emerging thinking on esoteric areas of focus.
The trick is an app that lets you exclude everything else, fully under your editorial control, with no dark patterns.
On iOS, I use Apollo (RIP Alien Blue).
> quit any and all digital activity that's a bottomless well
I’d add “short form ‘content’” to that.
At least once a quarter try to not pick up or browse any short form content until you’ve read 1 - 5 books, however many it takes to get past any agitation pulling you out of the reading flow, till you can again read for hours at a go.
It may be easier to start with one or two fiction, then switch to two or three non-fiction. Something like:
- airport novel
- philosophical fiction / literature
- pop non-fiction
- topical non-fiction
- textbook or research book
You can pick back up short form once your brain is willing to absorb an entire research book.
Some obscure subreddits remain a source of emerging thinking on esoteric areas of focus.
The trick is an app that lets you exclude everything else, fully under your editorial control, with no dark patterns.
On iOS, I use Apollo (RIP Alien Blue).
> quit any and all digital activity that's a bottomless well
I’d add “short form ‘content’” to that.
At least once a quarter try to not pick up or browse any short form content until you’ve read 1 - 5 books, however many it takes to get past any agitation pulling you out of the reading flow, till you can again read for hours at a go.
It may be easier to start with one or two fiction, then switch to two or three non-fiction. Something like:
You can pick back up short form once your brain is willing to absorb an entire research book.